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Tibet Monks beaten, arrested for ‘leaking info’ after being forced to watch the demolition of giant Buddha by China in Draggo: Details

OpIndia Staff - 8 January, 2022

China in the Sichuan province destroyed a 99 foot tall Buddha statue and 45 prayer wheels in the Draggo county, Kham, Tibet

Culture and History

The destruction of Bamiyan Buddhas: How the Taliban obliterated the 6th-century monuments to deny their own past

Jinit Jain - 16 August, 2021

In March 2001, the Talibani terrorists knocked down the millennium and a half old Buddha statues in the Bamiyan Valley in central Afghanistan

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